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>> reporter: hi, everybody, rick folbaum in the control room, a lot of new stories were working on including a story about a killer quake where dozens are dead, including an entire family. more than 150 people are wounded. well take you there to the devastation. also, staten island still reeling from sandy, now having to dig out after that noreaster. well talk live, rather, to a local official to see if people are getting the help that they need. agree and the countdown til election day is ove...

>>. >> reporter: good to see you. martha: what each candidate is trying to do in the coming days. bill: there are new worries, there are new worries about the national debt and how fast it is growing. check out these numbers. national debt topped $16.2 trillion. it is growing at a rate of $4 billion every 24 hours. thats extraordinary. stuart varney, host of "varney & company" on the fox business network. what to do here? >> it is astonishing how fast were piling up the debt. i went to check the...

Forever they will give you a return ticket, as well. jetblue to the rescue for those politically frustrated folks, when your guy loses. thats it for "studio b." now "your world." >>neil: thank you. indeed, we are here for the big debate looking at all sides of it on a day we doled that the economy will be front and center. also, on a day we got two extreme sets of numbers on the economy the one painting a pretty good picture, the other not so promising. but an issue we are told mitt romney wants...

The economy and domestic issues. >> how they can justify raising taxes to the middle class has been buried the last four years. >> dramatic admission today about the presidents first term from vice president biden. which gave republicans some predebate ammunition. though he charged bush policies are to blame. >> by the time we were elected they had eight years doubled the national debt. debt clock. doubled it. in addition to that, they had the slowest job private job growth since world war ii un...

Economy. if you cant get it right, its time to get out. i have to think that these refs work part time for the obama administration in the budget office. they see the national debt clock staring them in the face, they see a debt crisis and they just ignore and pretend it didnt even happen. theyre trying to pick the winners and losers and they dont even do that very well. a bit lame. vice president paul ryan forced to compare the president to the replacement refs. were talking about the lockout...

Lets have a conversation, okay? you got seats. lets use them. i got to start off on a, something that was really troubling that occurred last night. did you guys watch that packer game last night? i mean, give me a break. it is time to get the real refs. and you know what? it reminds me of president obama and the economy. if you cant get it right, it is time to get out. [applause] i have to think that these refs were part-time from the obama administration and the budget office. they see the n...

Are growing why should we have to pay for spend crazy illinois and great state of california. >> if you have done the right thing why are you now paying for california and illinois which have done the wropping thing with their budgets. why should you. and what is the morality. >> steve: look at the chicago tichers who got a new deal. i dont think they addressed pensions. >> no, they did not. we have national debt clock cane trillion and run there is it a debt clock for the city of chicago . it i...

Romney wants to appeal to hispanic voters. and in central florida and orlando, they believe they have a chance here in florida along the i-4 corridor where a lot of conservatives live and they want to appeal to those voters. a lot of people said paul ryan has been under-utilized and time to unleash him. he pushed aside the podium and his notes and went from the heart and said mitt romney will be a better leader than president obama has been and you might see this debt clock at $16 trillion and c...

Many policyls against the presit and the national debt clock behind me, $16 trillion and counting and president obama is responsible for almost a third of that number. a lot of spinning and out of control and the country needs a leader at this time to try to reverse the trend of those numbers and we expect paul ryan to try to reverse those numbers and paulpaul -- they were introducing a nasa astronaut and there have been changes and i think they need to reverse the course. >> we showed the clip ...

And then we had a massive recession. and so, when i walked into office we had a trillion dollar deficit. debt had mounted and then we had to take a bunch of emergency measures. that cost money. saving auto industry. making sure the financial system got back on track. jon: stephen hayes is senior writer for "the weekly standard" and a fox news contributor and, steve, it is my understanding that you have a little problem with the presidents answers there? >> well, i sure do. it was interesting bec...